Last of the Eurasianists

Slavs and Tatars, Last of the Eurasianists
As with many thorny ideas, Lev Gumilev’s Eurasianism has been hijacked, hacked, vulgarized. What was a critique of the Enlightenment underpinnings of Russia’s pivot to the West under Peter has today sadly become a shorthand for Russian nationalism. In that vein, to misquote Bono: “Charles Manson Alexander Dugin stole this song from The Beatles Lev Gumilev, we’re stealing it back.”